 Eventually the battalion, as well as the rest of the brigade and the 5th Division would be withdrawn from the Italian Campaign and sent to Palestine, where they would remain for the rest of the year, training and absorbing replacements, mainly from anti-aircraft gunners retrained as infantrymen.In early 1945 to relieve the British 1st Infantry Division.However, the 5th Division instead joined the British Second Army, at the time fighting on the , to participate in the final drive into Germany in April 1945.